Beyond the Baseline

One of my favorite tennis blogs is “Beyond the Baseline” by Courtney Nguyen – a Sports Illustrated blog. Here are some tidbits from recent “Daily Bagel” postings. Her Daily Bagel postings feature mostly one sentence linked descriptions of articles and clips throughout the internet.

The “No Challenges Remaining” Blog started a Tennis Book Club. CLICK HERE

Here’s some numbers from the California Department of Education from 2012. The average starting salary of a elementary school teacher in California is $38,625 to $41,246. Yes, a new elementary school teacher could only be making a couple of thousand dollars more for the year than a first-round loser at Wimbledon this year. If that doesn’t seem crazy to anyone out there than I’m just missing it.

It is reported that the average starting teaching salary in New York is $44,370 and can go up through the years to $72,708. In Kentucky, the average teacher starting salary is reported to be $35,075 and can go up to $48,908. In Montana, the average teacher starting salary is $26,734 and can go up to $47,132.

Oh, and as for the doctors, a U.S. internist (general medicine) makes an average $189,014 a year. If you divide that salary by four (for four Grand Slams on the presumption that Wimbledon’s $35,800 is a general Grand Slam first round salary, the doctor is not much over that at $47,253 and they’re working all year long.

Editors Note: If you follow the link to this story you will find an interesting comment at the end. For all of us who are old enough to remember Bettina Bunge in her playing days:

I totally agree with this article Sandra. I won approximately $32,000 for getting to the Semi Finals of Wimbledon in 1982. While I do think it should increase of course, but not by this insane amount as now. Sadly, I think it is only going to get more obscene.

Finally, although it’s a regular post and not from the Daily Bagel postings I just had to add this one – CLICK HERE for entire article on Benoit Paire’s pre match meal (Pizza):

and post match meal (Burger King):

Peter Green

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